COURTHOUSE — A Montgomery County Common Peas judge denied a murder defendant’s motion to suppress evidence Wednesday after a full day of argument from prosecutors and defense counsel.

Judge Steven T. O’Neill ruled he would not suppress the statement Norristown’s Luckenson Desrivieres made to Montgomery County Det. Paul Bradbury about two murders on the day of his arrest in June 2012.

Desrivieres is charged with two counts of first-, second- and third-degree murder in the deaths of Norristown’s Marc Winchell Estiverne and Shamara Hill in June 2012.

The defense contended that Desriviere’s decision to waive his constitutional rights and submit to questions by Bradbury was improperly influenced by statements made by a Homeland Security special agent prior to the arrival of county detectives in Newark, N.J.

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Defense attorney John I. McMahon Jr. argued that parts of the initial interview may have been “poisoned” when investigators allegedly told him that if he cooperated with the district attorney’s office “everything would be OK.”

“I greatly respect the court,” McMahon said Wednesday after the O’Neill’s ruling. “Nonetheless, I am surprised by the decision and I disagree with it. The defense will be prepared to vigorously present my client’s self-defense case at trial next week.”

O’Neill barred the public and the press from the courtroom Tuesday during the testimony of Ricky Miller, a special agent with Immigration and Customs Enforcement of the Department of Homeland Security.

The commonwealth filed three motions Wednesday relating to possible drug dealings Desrivieres had with one or more of his victims.

“The jury needs to know the relationship relating to the prior drug dealing, the subsequent feud and the setting up,” Assistant District Attorney Justin Boehret told the judge.“It forms the motive for the murders and the robbery.”

The judge deliberated whether “prior bad acts” would play into the course of the trial, which is scheduled to begin Monday.

“That those crimes are admissible — (Desrivieres) wanted to rob him, to take care of him permanently, that is our whole theory,” Boehret said.“It goes to motive. It goes to complete the story. It goes to the whole sequence of events.”

Prosecutors allege Desrivieres and at least one of his victims were in the business of selling drugs, but at some point, a falling out occurred relating to the proceeds of the drugs, as well as the drugs themselves.